Grab Your Crystals: MTV Might Bring Back The Hills

In 2006, MTV blessed us with a little TV show you may've heard of called The Hills. The soapy, over-the-top "reality" show tracked Laguna Beach star Lauren Conrad's pilgrimage to Los Angeles, where she sometimes worked at Teen Vogue but mostly just fought with her friends in nightclubs.

That's all The Hills needed to be a hit: just a gaggle of 20-somethings staring at each other vacantly, drinking champagne, and saying the word yeah slower than any human on the planet. It was riveting TV. No amount of drama on The Handmaid's Tale or Big Little Lies or any prestige show can top the time Conrad chewed out her high school best friend for hooking up with pre-Kardashians Brody Jenner. "It wasn't all Brody; it was you," Conrad quipped in 2007 with the fervency of a Meryl Streep monologue. Where is her Emmy?

It's no surprise, then, that MTV is reportedly looking to reboot this iconic TV show. Now, take this report with a grain of salt, but according to Us Weekly,, the network has its sights set on bringing back The Hills due to the "mega success" of its Jersey Shore relaunch.

The catch, though, is this potential reboot probably wouldn't include Conrad. “The rest of the crew is all still friends besides her,” a source told the magazine. “Everyone else is down to do it.”

Indeed, that assessment seems to hold water. Several of The Hills cast members—including Audrina Patridge, Whitney Port, Kristin Cavallari, Heidi Montag, and Spencer Pratt—have gone on record saying they're down to revisit the show again.

But what would a Hills reboot even look like? Would the women make fun of Justin Bobby's burps over drinks? Is L.A. going to revive Les Deux nightclub just so Patridge can show up uninvited to Montag's birthday again? Is Mr. Pratt going to break out the crystals? That's a given. He still posts about crystals on his social media. And hummingbirds. And Taylor Swift. Yeah, Spencer Pratt's Snapchat is a gold mine—he'd certainly need to talk about it on the reboot.

In fact, I can think of several story lines that would make for must-see TV involving these characters. Below, a non-exhaustive list.

Cavallari and Patridge meet at The Ivy to discuss the shade their children threw at each other on the playground.

Patridge goes to dinner with Ashlee Simpson and talks about how fun 2004 was. (They hung out last week, ICYMI).